Photos

The day in pictures

A pedestrian walks through the rain in Times Square, New York City. A storm system located off the coast drenched the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.

Russians donate blood at a Moscow clinic for victims of Monday’s suicide bomb attacks. A day of mourning was held for the 39 people killed in two suicide bombings in Russia’s subway system during morning rush hour.

Arab Israeli citizens march next to a large Palestinian flag during a protest marking Land Day in Sakhnin, Israel. Land Day commemorates the killing of six Arab citizens of Israel by Israeli security forces on March 30, 1976, during protests over Israel’s confiscation of Arab land.

Iraqi soldiers carry the coffins containing the remains of Iraqi soldiers who died during the 1991 Gulf War. The remains of nine soldiers were returned from Kuwait to Iraq during a ceremony at the Safwan border crossing.

A scientist cheers in the experiment control room after the world’s largest atom smasher set a record for high-energy collisions near Geneva, Switzerland. The Large Hadron Collider smashed protons together at record power, mimicking conditions close to the Big Bang that created the universe.

An emergency worker carries a woman from her home in the village of Talka in Belarus. About 200 homes were flooded when the Svisloch River overflowed.

A street musician receives a donation in a subway in Kiev, Ukraine.

A worker moves a pallet of cooked and colored Easter eggs at the Beham company in Thannhausen, Germany. Beham is Bavaria’s biggest colored egg producer.

A man dressed as a monkey takes part in a procession during a celebration marking the birthday of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman in New Delhi.

A garden gnome sculpture mimics a visitor relaxing on a bench on a warm spring day at the Garden Gnome Park in Trusetal, Germany.